Forecast Keeps Repeating

Gads, still no video unless you get the iTunes version. I've gotten the software installed but now comes the tough part of trying to find my way through getting it all set up and running properly. I'll keep plugging away at it.

Big news this afternoon is the decrease in strength of Tropical Storm Chris. Chris is still barely a tropical storm and is expected to drop into the depression category this evening. The satellite imagery tells the story with the low level circulation located a long way from any deep convection. The track of Chris remains the same with a westerly course taking it along the northern coast of Cuba and into the Gulf of Mexico early Monday. If the shear does weaken then Chris could redevelop and gain back some intensity, so we're prepared to watch it for the next several days.

For us in Central Alabama, there is little to talk about. It is hot, it will stay hot, and it looks like this pattern is with us for the next several days - perhaps a week or longer. Morning lows will bottom out in the lower and middle 70s with afternoon highs in the mid 90s. I just don't see anything that will give us much help with the dryness or the heat. Isolated showers will have to be mentioned, but most of us will stay dry.

I'm going to get back to the computer and try to figure out the settings and see about producing the video portion of this post. Wish me luck.

Stay cool and do take the heat seriously especially if you have to be outside working for long periods of time.

-Brian-
Posted by New Mike  
on August 3, 2006, 7:31 pm
Brian, If Chris redevelops, it will still be know as Chris right? Or will it be Chris Part II, or Chris Jr., Little Chris, Chris remixed, or does it become Debby???

Sorry... I got on a roll...

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Posted by  
on August 3, 2006, 9:52 pm
If the same system, once named, drops to TD status, it still retains the name. So, it will be TD Chris. If it reintensifies it will progress back to TS, H or whatever. Remember, Ivan redeveloped over the northern atlantic, and it was re-named Ivan...I think it actually became Extratropical at one time.....

See this PDF on Ivan for a diagram...
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/2004ivan.shtml?#FIG1

Matthew

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